Eemshaven

Eemshaven is a seaport in the north- east of the Netherlands. The port belongs to the municipality of Eemsmond and is located in the province of Groningen on the southwest side of the Ems estuary.

Geography

The freight and ferry port is situated on the Ems estuary in the Wadden Sea region of the southern North Sea towards the East Frisian municipality Krummhoern and south of the island of Borkum.

The entrance from the sea is via the Doekegatkanaal (10 m water over chart datum ) from Doekegat ( Dukegat ). A pilot service is offered ( Eemshaven pilot ). The organization of the harbor is at Groningen Seaports.

The port has a railway connection and is connected by the Dutch National Road N46 with the well located 30 km southwest of Groningen provincial capital and on the N33 with a 20 km southeast port city of Delfzijl.

History

The construction of the port began in the early 1970s on the site of a newly reclaimed polder; in 1973, the plants were opened. The port now consists of four docks: Julianahaven (12-15 m water over chart datum ), Emma Haven ( 8 m), Wilhelminahaven (13-15 m) and in 2008 commissioned by Queen Beatrix in operation - still in expansion - Beatrixhaven (7 -8 m). The Wilhelminahaven has extended the early 2010s. North of the Wilhelminahavens should another dock for an LNG terminal arise, but that should not be built for reasons of profitability.

Economy

Eemshaven only serves to function as a freight and transshipment port for various operations (eg cars Borg, Holland Malt, Orange Blue ) as a port for the equipment built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg on the River Ems cruise ships. Equipment for the recreational boating is not available in Eemshaven.

Besides serving as the transfer of goods Eemshaven serves as the AG Ferry Ems to the German islands of Borkum and (temporarily) Heligoland. The ferries direction Borkum is approximately a 50 minute drive.

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The search engine company Google Inc. uses in Eemshaven one of the largest data centers in Europe. It is operated by the company TCN.

Energy

To the east of the Eemshaven converter station of high voltage direct current transmission is by means of the NorNed cable from Norway. This 580 km long submarine cable makes it possible to exchange electrical energy nearly lossless between Norway and the Netherlands.

In the Eemshaven is the wind farm Westereems. The numerous small - dating from the 1990s - Wind turbines at the dikes were the end of the 2000s due to much larger systems - distributed over the entire area - replaced ( " repowering" ).

The electricity supplier Electrabel operates in the east of the Eemshaven since 1977 a gas - and -steam combined cycle power plant, which has been repeatedly modernized and expanded over the years. Today, the power plant has an electrical Eemscentrale total capacity of 2.4 GW.

With more new power plants to be built with a total capacity of 7.5 GW in the coming years an Energy Park. Currently planning Nuon and Advanced Power plants at the site, RWE began in 2009 the construction of a coal-fired power plant with a net capacity of about 1560 MW, which should begin operation in 2013. In summer 2011, this power plant construction permit was revoked due to the feared negative impact on the Wadden Sea and the East Frisian islands first. A revision of the decision of the State Council can not, however, had the opportunity to apply for the permits for the power plant again. However, a few days later announced that Economy Minister Maxime Verhagen that the lack of permits could be issued to, and thus the power plant should be built. In June 2012, planning permission was finally granted again.

Eemshaven provides firms with offshore wind energy as a construction, warehouse and base port for offshore wind turbines. Thus, inter alia, the offshore wind farm " BARD Offshore 1 ", " Trianel wind farm Borkum " and " Global Tech I" powered by Eemshaven from.